Fixing The Style Press Plug-in for Word Press (Nerdy)
If you’re a super-admin, you won’t even see the problem; but administrators of individual blogs won’t have the menu item.
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Instagram — Who Am I Working For?
Playing around with Instagram filters a little.
MySQL Optimization for WordPress
Rolling out a WordPress installation with 1600 blogs and then running mass training sessions for them led us into some pretty rough waters. Here are some “tunings” we tried.
Photo Monkey and FotoEditor
These are a couple of free photo-manipulation apps available on the Windows 8 Store. Click through for examples, compliments and of course snark.
Lumia 900 Camera with Instacam
I took it as a good opportunity to test the camera on my Nokia Lumia 900 phone.June’s “Wired” magazine gave it (the camera) a very high rating, so it’s worth an audition.
It is just a camera phone, so I’m aware that I’m nitpicking…
Samsung Slate
This year at The Job, many new students are getting the Samsung Series 7 Slate instead of a traditional laptop. Since we’re part of the training team for this new hardware, I’ve had one to play around with for the last few months. Here’s what I think.
But Working On It Anyway
So Uploadify it is, because it works on the file upload element itself, not the entire form, letting us do the whole thing asynchronously..
Time Waster
The “Uploadify” SWF/JS combo used to be pretty good. In fact, I still have it in place for some projects. But the upgrade to 3.x, and their web site in general, is a disaster.
Open Badges Initiative
The week before last we did a presentation at MIT’s New Media Consortium conference in Cambridge, MA. We talked about the “Pirate Patch” program that’s being used as a retention tool, and piloted with the incoming freshman class. Here’s my part –the technical part — of the PowerPoint show, for your bedside reading.
Same Old Microsoft
Some things never change. Read about how you can spend days, weeks even, trying to get a file off of Sky Drive.
Top 11 Reasons You Should Attend the 2012 NMC Summer Conference
Top 10 Reasons You Should Attend the 2012 NMC Summer Conference.
The 11th is that I’m co-presenting.
From The Dark Ages
If I have Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0x/7.0x??
Thinking About A New Look
I’ve been using variations on the current look of this blog for a long time. It’s time to modernize, and go with something a little more visually active. Especially since I don’t post as much as I used to, creating the illusion that I do would be nice — wouldn’t it?
Something photo friendly, at least. Maybe with one of those slider thingies. What do you think? Suggestions?
NYFE
Launching today, a new site that I developed, with some help from F. who designed the logo, for the New York Foundation for Eldercare.